2017/06/29 by Rui‐Bo Jin, Rui-Bo Jin, Guo-Qun Chen +7 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Amplitude damping channel #Computer science #Interference (communication) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Monotonic function #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Photon #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum discord #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Statistical physics #Statistics #Telecommunications #Uncorrelated #Work (physics) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.95.062341
published as Phys. Rev. A 95, 062341 (2017) · 8 pages, 2 figures
openalex publication_date 2017/06/29 · arxiv created 2017/06/30 · arxiv updated 2017/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Multiparticle interference is a fundamental phenomenon in the study of quantum mechanics. It was discovered in a recent experiment [Y.-S. Ra et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 1227 (2013)] that spectrally uncorrelated biphotons exhibited a nonmonotonic quantum-to-classical transition in a four-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference. In this work, we consider the same scheme with spectrally correlated photons. By theoretical calculation and numerical simulation, we found the transition not only can be nonmonotonic with negatively correlated or uncorrelated biphotons, but also can be monotonic with positively correlated biphotons. The fundamental reason for this difference is that the HOM-type multiphoton interference is a differential-frequency interference. Our study may shed new light on understanding the role of frequency entanglement in multiphoton behavior.